The Companies Behind Vici Beauty School (INC)
A behind-the-scenes look at the small companies that make business possible at
a busy salon training-ground in Milwaukee.
Vici Beauty School, Milwaukee | 11.09.11, 3:59 p.m.
**Haircutting shears**
Vici Beauty School students give discounted haircuts to some 1,500 clients
each week using Zip and Golden Crane shears, made by Sensei Shear Systems, a
Pittsburg, California, manufacturer of professional scissors that cost as much
as $700 a pair. Founded in 1985 by brothers Mark and John Wright, Sensei
specializes in ergonomic shears that reduce stress on the user's neck and
shoulders. The $4 million company, run by president Mark Wright, has 11
employees and sells products through 100 salon distributors worldwide. It also
provides mail-order scissor-sharpening services and recently began selling
dog-grooming shears.
**Smocks**
The beauty business can be messy. To protect their clothes from dyes and
makeup, Vici's 114 stylists-in-training wear water-repellent, stain-resistant
polyester smocks made by Smockers by Bexar Manufacturing of San Antonio.
Founded in 1994 by president Veronica DeNeve, the company started out making
smocks for cosmetics employees at Dillard's department stores. Today, Smockers
has 15 employees and sells smocks and uniforms, in eight colors and 18 styles,
to hair and beauty clients in the U.S. and Canada, ...
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